What to expect weather wise ?
 

Weather is one of the influential factors in gardening. It can be gardener's foe or a friend, to some extent.
Here is a long term temperature forecast for the first 3 months of 2017

I am in Southeastern NC, very close to SC state line. Maybe there is a chance to start my season early and beat the heat of hot summer !!!:D
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Where are you on the map ?

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Not on the map :(

Build that weather wall.

i've come to expect the unexpected.

I'll have plants out early March this year and plenty of back ups in case we get a late frost. I'm hoping to get a great harvest early and take a break when the temps get too high and start fall plants in August.

Here's Feb-Apr temp forecast and it also looks like we're gonna have a dry spring too for most of the Sowth;)
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Feb-April precipitation forecast
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[url]http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/multi_season/13_seasonal_outlooks/color/churchill.php[/url]

If you were to draw a line between Fort Worth and Waco Texas. Fort worth is around 45 miles north and Waco is about 65 miles south of us. = Below normal rainfall and above normal temperatures.

This long term forecast is just for winter months ( Jan, Feb , Mar ) not for spring and summer. But the chances are that spring weather might follow the suit. But the summer weather is far fetched .
To us in the south it can be an opportunity to get started with the early season fruits setting before the scorching heat arrives.

Gardeneer I am very close to you as I am only a few miles from the NC border. Lyman SC to be exact. Last year I started everything 2 weeks earlier than normal and I have to say that it worked out great. It was 61 degrees here last night and it seems that our winter is really only a week or two of scattered days that it gets really cold. If you have frost blankets and/or buckets to put over the plants I would try to get a early start as spring is usually good tomato weather temps wise but after that it quickly goes downhill. Just make sure to have backups and stagger your seed starting.

Last year for me it was 60 and sunny in January, 80 and sunny in April, and then 45 and rainy in May. The warm winter was a big head fake.

Arctic blast blowing into Colorado early next week. Kill them Bugs!